Entries by Luke

Pi Day Friday!

Well, if you still had any hesitation of firing up the good old days of full-blown Pi Day parties, hesitate no more… because Pi Day is back on a Friday! And while we are now a full decade removed from the Pi Day of the Century (where has the time gone??), there’s plenty of numerical […]

Feels Like the Good Ol’ (Pi) Days!

Partners in Pi, This year’s Pi Day just feels right. After a few years of paused traditions, unspoken digits, and uneaten slices, Pi Day 2023 feels like a good old fashioned, typical Pi Day… and that’s a good thing! It falls on a Tuesday, which is a perfectly bland day in the school and work […]

A Verrry Long Weekend Is Over!

Pals in Pi, Happy Monday!  In the good old days, I would always root for Pi Day to fall on a weekday.  The glow of the holiday shines brightest when teachers and students are together at school on the actual 3/14 and the raucous revelry is uninhibited. And so perhaps it’s fitting that the last […]

An Infinite Year… But It’s (Almost) Time for Cheer!

Saturday, March 14, 2020 feels like a very long time ago.  As I’ve said before, some of my favorite Pi Days of all time have been on Saturdays, including, of course, 3.14.15, the Pi Day of the Century.  So I had naturally been looking forward to it, as I’m sure you were.  But alas, instead […]

A Pi Day to… forget? :-(

Hi friends, It’s usually a good thing when Pi Day falls on a Saturday. The last two times this has taken place were both momentous dates in our shared history of Pi: 2015:  March 14 fell on a Saturday in 2015, which, of course, marked the Pi Day of the Century (3.14.15).  I’ll never forget […]

Riding High from Pi Day Princeton!

Hey, Pi People! Hope you’re all geared up for a great Pi Day 2019! As for me, my Pi Day celebration started nice and early. I was a special guest at what I would consider to be one of the two biggest Pi Day celebrations on the planet: Pi Day Princeton! (I was lucky enough […]

Uh-Oh… Pi Day’s Getting Political?

Hi, Friends in Pi! It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Another Pi Day is approaching, and while there’s not much mathematically special about 3/14/17 (except maybe for the fact that 3+14=17, but who’s counting?), this year’s holiday is apparently going to make a splash in an unexpected way. The news cycle on Pi […]

3.14.16 is upon us… um, Rounded Pi Day?

We all now have our stories of where we were, who we were with, and what kind of pie we were chewing at the Big Moment last year: 3/14/15, 9:26:53.  Nothing will ever quite match the grandeur of that one.  Where was I?  I was in a room of 500 math majors and professors in […]

The Big One is Here – 3.14.15!

Some are calling it the Pi Day of the century.  Others, more dramatically, have deemed it the only (true) Pi Day of our lives.  Whatever you call it, 3.14.15 is undeniably the biggest day in the modern history of math holidays.  Well, in our ten-fingered world, that is. (On that side note, this whole holiday […]